Clothes-hack



drawings, making a part of this specifica- WINFIELD S. FOSTER, OF MARILLA, NEW YORK.

CLOTHES-RACK.

Specification of Letters Patent No.

To all whom it may concern.'

Be it known that I, WINEIELD S. FOSTER, of Marilla, in the county of Erie and State of New York, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in ClothesjRacks; and I hereby declare that the following 1s a full, clear, and exact description thereof, reference heing had to the accompanying tion.

Figures 1 and 2 represent the same rack fixed at different degrees of expansion.

The letters of reference indicate the same parts in the different figures.

To enable others to construct and use my improvement I proceed to describe it.

The expansion clothes rack or horse represented in the drawings in twopositions, is composed of a series of single racks or panels which are each made of two side pieces connected together hy transverse rounds or hars placed horizontally, upon which the clothes are to be placed to dry. Some of the rounds in each rack are fixed in the side pieces and others play loosely through them forming pivot bars, each, with the exception of the two outer ones, common to two of the racks, and by which they are connected together with free inotion upon their respective axes.

The front and rear sides of the compound rack are arranged and connected precisely alike. Therefore, the description of one side will sufl'ice for both. Each of the pivot bars are furnished with heads projecting Those marked outside of the side pieces.

23,020, dated February 22, 1859'.

A carry, fixed therein, rods B, while those marked C, have holes of a size which allows of the free passage of the rods through them and have set screws D to secure the rods in any desired position in relation to the heads A. The rods are provided with knobs upon their extremities to prevent their disengagement from the heads B, when the screws are slacked.

The side pieces of the two lower 4racks are crossed and pivoted together in their centers, forming the main standard of the machine, from which all the others diverge, as shown in the drawings. The lower extremities are provided with rollers orl wheels, to facilitate the removal of the rack from place to place. Then all the set screws-are loosened the rack may he folded into a small compass, or it may be expanded into a variety of forms, in any of which it may loe fixed by the set screws in the heads C, acting upon the rods B.

That I'clairn as my invention and desire to secure hy Letters Patent is-h The combination of the rods B and heads A and C with the side pieces of the expanding clothes rack in the manner, and for the purpose specified.

In testimony whereof I have signed my name to this specification before two subscribing witnesses.

1WINFIELD S. FOSTER. 

